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Tursten, Helene
Helene Tursten was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is also the setting she has chosen for Detective Inspector Irene Huss. Tursten now lives in Sunne, Värmland, a location she believes would have worked less well as a setting for her detective stories. The fact that she would become a detective writer was nothing that Helene Tursten went around dreaming about. Although her Swedish teacher at upper ...
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Crichton, Michael
The American author, physician, director and teacher John Michael Crichton was a remarkable person for several reasons: he was 206 cm tall; he was a popular author and director as well as a respected debater and public speaker; and he was an authority on a raft of topics from computer programming to climate change. In 1994, he was the first to have featured at the top of three major bestseller...